Syndication of "Hard Problems" on American Public Television

美国公共电视台联合播出“难题”

• 批准号: 0923684
• 负责人: Joseph Gallian
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Mathematical Association of America
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0923684&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Syndication; Hard; Problems; American; Public

Unlike sports, or spelling, or even the arts, the general public has little awareness of the process whereby the most mathematically talented high school students in the United States are discovered and nurtured through math competitions. Although millions of students each year take mathematics exams and hundreds of thousands enter math competitions, the public has little understanding of the passion, commitment, determination, talent, parental involvement and coaching it takes to advance to the most difficult math competitions. The MAA documentary Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest tells the stories of the six high school students who represented the United States in the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) Competition in Ljubljana, Slovenia. With funding from the National Science Foundation, the MAA will make the film available to the public through syndication by American Public Television. Viewers will discover that the exceptional young people who represent the U.S. at the IMO team are talented and well-rounded, and are outstanding ambassadors for our country. After watching this film, one can easily envision them as being team leaders when they take their place in the academic/research community, in the work force, and even starting their own successful companies, as many past participants have.

与体育、拼写甚至艺术不同，普通大众很少意识到美国最有数学天赋的高中生是通过数学竞赛被发现和培养的。尽管每年有数以百万计的学生参加数学考试，成千上万的学生参加数学竞赛，但公众对进入最困难的数学竞赛所需要的激情、承诺、决心、天赋、父母的参与和指导知之甚少。MAA纪录片《难题：通往世界上最难的数学竞赛之路》讲述了代表美国参加2006年在斯洛文尼亚卢布尔雅那举行的国际数学奥林匹克竞赛的六名高中生的故事。在美国国家科学基金会的资助下，美国电影协会将通过美国公共电视台联合放映这部电影。观众将会发现，代表美国参加国际海事组织的优秀年轻人才华横溢，全面发展，是我们国家杰出的大使。看完这部电影，你可以很容易地想象，当他们在学术/研究界、在工作队伍中占据一席之地，甚至像许多过去的参与者一样，创办自己成功的公司时，他们会成为团队的领导者。